Hawaii Senator Mazie Hirono has pledged to donate her salary to food banks helping federal employees during the partial government shutdown as it enters its second weekend.

'More than 2,500 federal workers in Hawaii are either furloughed or working without pay during the #TrumpShutdown,' Hirono said on Twitter Thursday.

'As long as Donald Trump refuses to re-open the government, I will be donating my salary to Hawaii's food banks - who serve nearly one in eight Hawaii residents in need.'

The democratic senator also released a statement on her website, labeling the shutdown 'totally unfair, completely unnecessary, and entirely the President's fault,' as 800,000 federal workers are not receiving regular paychecks.

Hawaii Senator Mazie Hirono has pledged to donate her salary to food banks that help federal workers so long as the government shutdown persists

The democratic senator adamantly blamed Trump for the shutdown, labeling it #TrumpShutdown

Hirono released a statement following the shutdown: 'Two nights ago, the Senate did its job by passing a bill to keep the government open with the expectation that the House would pass it and that the President would sign it into law.

'But at the 11th hour, Donald Trump succumbed to pressure from his far right-wing base and chose to shut down the government for a $5 billion down payment on his vanity wall.

'This shutdown is totally unfair, completely unnecessary, and entirely the President's fault. Donald Trump needs to face the reality that he won't get $5 billion for his wall and accept responsibility for keeping the government running.'

Trump and Democrats are trading blame for the partial government shutdown but doing little substantive talking with each other, as the disruption in federal services and public employees’ pay slogs into another weekend.

Cooped up in the White House after cancelling his planned vacation to his private Florida club, Trump tweeted Saturday that he's 'waiting for the Democrats to come on over and make a deal on Border Security.'

'From what I hear, they are spending so much time on Presidential Harassment that they have little time left for things like stopping crime and our military!' he added.

Trump is still in the White House after cancelling Florida vacation and may remain in Washington DC into the new year due to the shutdown

Trump took to Twitter on Saturday to explain why he did not get his bill for the wall to pass through the Senate

But there has been little direct contact between either side during the stalemate, and Trump did not ask Republicans, who hold a monopoly on power in Washington for another five days, to keep Congress in session.

Trump took to Twitter on Saturday to explain why he did not get his bill for the wall to pass through the Senate, saying: 'For those that naively ask why didn't the Republicans get approval to build the Wall over the last year, it is because IN THE SENATE WE NEED 10 DEMOCRAT VOTES, and they will gives us ''NONE'' for Border Security! Now we have to do it the hard way, with a Shutdown. Too bad! @FoxNews.'

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